Out of the Shadows
The Women Countering Insurgency in Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D E Agbiboa (0000-0001-6957-0982, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1011-1042 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x21000283 |
| OpenAlex | W3201624239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 29 |
Moving beyond the focus on violenceagainstwomen and violence committedbywomen, this article interrogates violencecounteredby women. The article sheds new light on the gendered practices of counterinsurgency in northeast Nigeria, with critical attention to why women joined the civilian resistance to the Boko Haram insurgency and their complex role and agency as local security providers. Using the voices and lifeworlds of women who joined the Civilian Joint Task Force (yan gora) in Borno State as well as the Vigilante Group Nigeria and Hunters Association (kungiya marhaba) in Adamawa State, the article underscores the layered and gender-bending role of women as frontline fighters, knowledge brokers, state informants, and producers of vigilante technologies. The article finds that women counterinsurgents mobilized after Boko Haram shifted its strategy toward using female insurgents, especially as suicide bombers. Women joined the war against Boko Haram for complex reasons, including personal loss, revenge, family ties, community attachment, patriotism, and a collective yearning for normalcy
Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Battlefield · Boko haram · Criminology · Insurgency · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Overcoming Boko Haram
Women in War
War, Women, and Power
Women and Power in Postconflict Africa
The Paradox of Terrorism in Civil War
Sexual harassment of working women
Anthropological Locations
Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Gendered Security Harms
National heroes or coming anarchy? Vigilant youth and the “war on terror” in Nigeria
Femininity is not inferiority
Women as ‘Practitioners’ and ‘Targets’
Girls as “Weapons of Terror” in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leonean Rebel Fighting Forces
Reality Versus Perception
Girl Soldiers
Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence
Gendered practices of counterinsurgency
The women and girls associated with Boko Haram
Female Fighters in the Sierra Leone War
Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed
The Politics of Protection
Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict
Promiscuous Girls, Good Wives, and Cheating Husbands
Fearless Fighters and Submissive Wives
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |